Magic by Martin Gardner

Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule we simply...

"There will never be a greater book in magic." -John Fisher Martin Gardner is one of the most respected and creative magical thinkers of...

Surefire Tricks to Amaze your FriendsA barber in Chicago says he'd rather cut the hair of ten red-headed men than the hair of one brown-haired man....

Martin Gardner wrote the "Mathematical Games" column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as...